Kristian Silva from the Weekly Review – Eastern has the latest here –Manningham candidate David Muscat faces court The second part of this saga – whether Mullum Mullum is to go back to the polls for a by-election is yet to be decided… The man accused of running as an illegal candidate in last year’s […]
Category: Manningham Council
C96 – DD08 zone changes Planning Panel Submission
Today was the day several of us managed to present our views on the proposed changes to the Manningham DD08 high density Zones, and the current zone regulations as well. This Government appointed Independent Planing Panel, ( IPP,) consisted of a single member – Mr Lester Townsend – hearing the views of residents, council and […]
Untangle the Building Zone Maze
It’s only a week away to the Manningham Event targeting the building zones, changes, and impacts night. Event : High Density Zones and planned changes – Koonung ward councilors review and discussion. RSVP here Doncaster, Wed Feb 20th, 2013 7:30pm This event will be a mixture of public discussion and, council regulation insight from […]
Bi-election May be called for Mullum Mullum
We may get an answer soon on this one, but it sure is messy. If Mr Muscat had withdrawn the 521 primary votes would have gone elsewhere, as would the 26 preferences he collected, that were subsequently distributed across the remaining candidates. So what is the right thing to do with his votes? Delete all […]
Event : High Density Zones and planned changes – Koonung ward councilors review and discussion.
If you want to know what the high density zone changes proposed are, want to understand what the planning speak means, or want to know how to put a submission to the Independent planning panel, then this is for you. It will be an open forum and workshop with Koonung ward councillors there, including Steve […]
Public workshop on how to present to planning panels.
Are you interested? Koonung ward councilors are asking what topics of interest would be in a workshop to make sure you know how to get your point across to a planning panel… Very important to our C96 proposal. It could cover, references, Planning speak, items that are or not taboo, presentation techniques … what else […]
Thiele St 2-4-6 VCAT Practice Day.
Well Thiele St Doncaster, and it’s 50 apartments / four storey proposal had it’s practice day a VCAT last Friday. All told about 15 minutes, after sitting trough a couple of others at 10am. The VCAT member checked that the developer, the council, and the unhappy residents were present, then asked if we were all […]
Response to c96 Denisty changes – history lesson
Why is it important to be very clear and avoid abiguity when defining planning rules? And why must we all make sure that we track and challenge the council? Well this history lesson from some-one who has been there before spells it out… Despite all council’s undertakings and assurances it is unlikely we will have […]
Donvale development plan bound for VCAT
This development site had previously been approved for ten townhouses, now they want to squeeze in 23. The narrow single access street will suffer congestion at the best of times with no room for passing. The exit on to Carbine street lands on top of a bus stop, and a roundabout that is usually backed […]
Efficient new council – Saves Residents Hours
Wow – You’d better not turn up to the Manningham council meetings late from now on… The new council had their first meeting tonight and were out of there in under an hour ! Much better than the drawn out meetings of old that wen’t to midnight. Keep it up guys 🙂 Buy the way […]